Empathy
From Bench to Bedside
$52.41
- Paperback
334 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2014
Summary
Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.There are many reasons for scholars to investigate empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction at all stages of life; it is thought to help motivate positive social behavior, inhibit aggression, and provide the affective and motivational bases for moral development; it is a necessary component of psychotherapy and patient-physician interacti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262525954 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026252595X |
| Author: | Jean Decety, Dan Zahavi, Søren Overgaard, Allan Young, C. Daniel Batson, Stephanie C. Echols, Joshua Correll, Karyn L. Lewis, Sara D. Hodges |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 334 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Social Neuroscience |
About The Author
Jean Decety
Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Child Neurosuite. He is the coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and The Moral Brain and the editor of Empathy- From Bench to Bedside, all published by the MIT Press.Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Child Neurosuite. He is the coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and The Moral Brain and the editor of Empathy- From Bench to Bedside, all published by the MIT Press.Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen and the author of Self-Awareness and Alterity and Husserl’s Phenomenology.Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Child Neurosuite. He is the coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and The Moral Brain and the editor of Empathy- From Bench to Bedside, all published by the MIT Press.Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Child Neurosuite. He is the coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and The Moral Brain and the editor of Empathy- From Bench to Bedside, all published by the MIT Press.
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